Wednesday, February 10, 2010

For several days I have had this thought

I keep fighting it because I am an independent person and hate hate hate to ask for help, but it keeps coming back to me. And because I am a very strong believer in God and his willingness to talk to us if we are willing to listen, I am giving in.

I keep "thinking" that I need to ask my knitting friends if they would be willing to donate yarn to my cause. I do not want your project yarn, just what is left over. If I could get donations from many of you, I am sure I could put it together into many hat projects. Maybe even mittens and scarfs. Buying the yarn is becoming a bit spendy for me and I am coming to the point that I need to supplement my stash. I can use anything from sock weight to worsted weight.

The one caveat though, is that I cannot use craft quality yarn. I do not want to sound ungrateful at all, but what I am making must be of good quality. If you have yarn that you are willing to donate to my cause, please contact me and I will send you my address.

Have also been thinking that if any of you have knit or craft (bags and baskets made from recycled plastic bags, etc) projects that you would like to donate, I would be most happy to accept them also.

I figured out that if I can have 150 hats made by the bazaar season this fall, I can make $3000.00 for my church project. It is not impossible, and I am still counting on God to bless this.

From the very bottom of my heart I thank all of you for your generosity.

13 comments:

Evy-You are so right about the quality of the yarn! (Gramma's right again!) I don't have anything right now-because all I have left is craft yarn, but as I switch over and have some odds and ends, I will gladly pass them on. I will also try to come up with a couple of things myself...No promises, but I do want to try! Maybe this can be a good lenten project for me! Miss you!

I have a wonderful stash and lots of quality. Most of it is designated for projects but I don't mind at all giving up a few projects for this. Do you want only washable? Contact me and I'll mail it to you this weekend. I don't have the time to knit along with you right now but if you get in a crunch I could try and do a hat or two.

I have two spools of yarn that I bought intending to teach myself to knit. It's still sitting in my closet. The colors of the first are hot pink, purple, burgundy with a little orange and blue mixed in. The second has sage green, gray blue, navy blue and white mixed in. Brand names are Lion Brand Yarn and it says America's Most Popular Fashion Yarn on them. I bougth them at Michaels. It also says the yarn is machine washable and dryable.

Anonymous, I wish I knew who you are.I have many posts about my trip to Africa beginning on my blog in October of 2008. It was this trip that changed my heart forever. My goal now is to be able to return to live in Tanzania or Zaire and help these dear people. God Willing it will happen. Until then, I will continue in my quest to build a church in Dar es Salaam.I am glad you are interested and hope you do come back and read more.

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I am a Right-Wing-Nut-Christian-Conservative,clinging to my religion and my guns. Living on the Left Coast. I value family and the sanctity of life.
I love Disneyland and go there, on a regular basis, to play with my grandchildren.
On January 9, 2013 I received my second membership in a club I never wanted membership in to begin with. I am now a mother awaiting reunion with two of my children in Heaven. Kris left us on January 9 and our preborn baby Jeffery Matthew went to heaven in 1971. I know I still have work to do here but I am anxiously awaiting our reunion in heaven.